Brent crude crossed the $100 threshold in early September 2026, squeezing consumers at the pump and raising the cost of nearly every good that moves by truck or ship.

The Nakamoto Project, a three-board-member 501(c)(3) founded in 2023, is running a 12-week print campaign in the nation's largest business daily. Its leaders won't answer questions about the money.

Kevin O'Leary says disciplined savers who invest 15% of every paycheck in the market can retire with millions — but inflation, taxes and the cost-of-living crisis are eating the margin before it ever reaches the brokerage account.

At the Fortune Leaders Forum on Sept. 8, 2026, leaders from BCG, Starbucks and Syngenta converged on one prescription: build organizations that can change course fast, or fall behind.

With fewer than a third of U.S. workers engaged on the job and AI eliminating entry-level roles, executives say cost-cutting culture is producing a talent crisis that no hiring cycle can fix.

Voyager Technologies founder Dylan Taylor says ownership, not a bigger paycheck, is what compounds wealth over time — a lesson in free enterprise that cuts against the instinct to simply ask the boss for more cash.

The former first son is turning his infamous laptop controversy into a speculative crypto play, with a structure critics are already calling a repeat of the $TRUMP token debacle.

A 40-year-old tax-credit scheme built to house the lowest-income renters instead delivered apartments for the middle class, and a Cato Institute economist says the bureaucracy that runs it is the reason the math no longer works.

Gov. Dan McKee and challenger Helena Foulkes trade accusations of opioid profiteering and corporate buyouts ahead of a Sept. 9 primary, while a bungled bridge project drags years past its promised deadline.

At the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau on Sept. 8, 2026, economist Louis-Vincent Gave argued that geopolitical turbulence is pushing investors toward Chinese government bonds — not because yields are higher, but because the returns have been 'very good' while U.S. Treasuries have delivered 'horrible returns.'

With Washington imposing 50% duties on Canadian goods and declining to renew USMCA, Ottawa is accelerating a long-overdue pivot to Asia — but awareness gaps on both sides of the Pacific threaten to slow the capital flows.

Gaming still drives 45% of GDP and 80% of tax revenue, but Macau's new five-year plan commits 130 billion patacas to emerging industries — and Las Vegas is the unlikely blueprint.

The WorldQuant founder, whose family fled the Soviet Union with one ruble, is backing the British Museum's most ambitious blockbuster in 50 years — and framing every dollar as a compounding investment in human talent.

Three decades of tax cuts, entitlement expansion, and crisis spending — all signed by boomer presidents — have pushed debt held by the public to 100% of GDP for the first time since World War II. The bill lands on the next generation.

The 'Shark Tank' investor says Jobs drilled an 80:20 signal-to-noise discipline into him in the early 1990s — and four decades of compounding wins prove the lesson stuck.